Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:40:39 +0200 | From | Lennart Poettering <> | Subject | Re: Linux 5.3-rc8 |
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On Di, 17.09.19 23:38, Martin Steigerwald (martin@lichtvoll.de) wrote:
> (I know that it still with /dev/urandom, so if it is using RDRAND now, > this may indeed be different, but would it then deplete entropy the CPU > has available and that by default is fed into the Linux crng as well > (even without trusting it completely)?)
Neither RDRAND nor /dev/urandom know a concept of "depleting entropy". That concept does not exist for them. It does exist for /dev/random, but only crazy people use that. systemd does not.
Lennart
-- Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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